Q: I’m sending you the response I want I might have despatched on to Robert Flanagan (featured in Roadshow on March 17). I lived within the Bay Space for over 50 years. This made me so unhappy. I'd pay for the memorial outdoors Safeway on Hamilton Avenue.
Lisa Johnson, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
A: And her follow-up…
Q: Expensive Robert, What an inconvenience to you and neighbors for what you suppose is an ugly memorial. You didn’t elaborate on why the location is problematic, simply that neighbors are bored with it. I’m fairly certain the mother and father, household, and mates of 24-year-old Manny Huizar, whose valuable life was reduce brief making an attempt to cease a shoplifter on the retailer, are usually not.
What a few type gesture from you and your neighbors, providing to work with Safeway to determine a plaque, plant, or one thing that honors Manny’s life in his group, rather than the location? If you happen to and your Silicon Valley neighbors can’t afford it, I’ll pay for it.
Lisa Johnson
A: Here's what Colin-a-San Jose-spokesman mentioned, “We’re trying into choices. There’s no precedent or coverage for a everlasting memorial. The household is asking if there’s a approach they will place a tree, bench, or another plaque-bearing object close to that website. We’re delicate to their grief and the extraordinary circumstances of Manuel’s dying. We’re speaking amongst ourselves and with different departments to see what could be possible by way of each coverage and assets. I’ll let our deputy director know there’s somebody providing to chip in and observe up with you if we discover a path ahead. Please share our thanks with the keen reader.”
Q: Please know that not all of the “surrounding neighbors” have been bored with the memorial at that Safeway. The important employees there helped many people get by way of the pandemic. If Manny’s family and friends wanted that memorial to course of his loss, we have to respect that.
David Pollak, San Jose
A: And…
Q: I store at that Safeway and the Ceremony Help subsequent to it. I discovered the memorial touching, particularly since I've a son the identical age because the younger man who was killed. If it irritates you to see a cultural remembrance of his life and of how a lot his household cherished him, cease and ask your self why.
Shelley D.
A: However…
Q: Roadside memorials are a distraction to drivers. They’re ugly and, worse, they're an appropriation of public property for personal use. This property belongs to the general public, to not those that are grieving.
Jim Wissick
A: I so disagree. It’s a reminder of the tragedy there and, on this case, one brought on by somebody utilizing a gun.
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